Home again!

Well, hi!

It's Thursday. It's not even lunch time yet, and Abbie has already had a nap. She must have been tired! Grant is watching Cars. I'm just kinda ghosting around. My back went out pretty much the second I got home. Bummer. Oh, well. I have what I need to take care of it, and no impending responsibilites to worry about. Not a bad time for it to go, really. Chances are about equal that I will be at practice tonight. If I'm feeling okay, I'll probably go, just so I can learn stuff. The stretching might be good, too. I can't do much of it here. Abbie jumps on me.

Josh took his final exam last night! That means that for several weeks, I'll actually get to see him on Mondays and Wednesdays. Sadly, the Tuesday class is not over yet. We'll work something out.

Tonight, I am making soft tacos for dinner. And Josh can make his into a burrito. I'm really looking forward to it. I'm going to brown 2 pounds of hamburger instead of 1, so later in the weekend we can make fancy nachos. Going to be good stuff!

It took me 20 minutes to cross the bridge in Washinton last night. I caught it right at 5:00. 10 minutes later and it could have been much worse. But it did put us home pretty late. I was worried about the kids, since it was already an hour past their dinner time, so I didn't stop at the library like I had planned. I decided I would go today instead, but with my back, I don't know if I'll be able to. I'm not super sure what I would check out if I were there, though. Maybe I should just read something I have instead. I have a few books, you know. I'm thinking maybe I'll read Wise Children. So funny. Or maybe Seventeen. It's a summertime kind of book.

Oh! And I have new movies from my dad. He gave me Maverick, French Kiss and one called Dear Frankie, which I've never seen. If I ever have enough child-free minutes, I'm going to watch that one.

We had a nice time in Rolla. by the way. The first day we went to the Splash Zone, which is what the city pool converted into while I was off living somewhere else. It was chilly, but the kids had a great time. I got a sunburn on my back. We had fancy green beans for dinner, with beef boillon in them and onion and chopped potato, and home grown corn on the cob from my dad's neighbor and buddy, Ron Haas, and sloppy Joes. After dinner, we went to Mr. Ron's house and the kids got to harvest some corn for themselves, and one onion each, and grape tomatoes. On the way back, the fireflies were coming out, so we had to chase them aroud the front yard for a while. It was wonderful.

Tuesday we went to visit my grandmother in Versailles. I rode in the back between the carseats for 2 hours, since my dad came, too. (Tuesdays are his days off.) We had burgers from B & B, and talked and Dad did some projects, and I snooped in Gran's dishes... Then, two more hours in the back seat, and home. The kids got to eat their own corn for dinner. We had a frozen apple pie for dessert, but it wasn't very good. It had too much of something...baking powder, maybe...

Yesterday we had lunch at Panera. I had baked potato soup. Yum. It was exactly what I wanted. Then we bought two giant cookies and ate them outside because it was so beautiful. We also walked on the walking path between the house we lived in in Rolla when the kids were babies and the house I grew up in. There's a park at the end of it, so we played there, too.

Well...I have to go. Abbie is hysterical for some reason. Hope you all have a nice Thursday.